NAPIER NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2430, 8 April 1915, Page 3

NAPIER NEWS

Our Napier correspondent writes that Miss Charllon, of Hastings, left yesterday morning for Wellington. Mr. C. B. Morison, K.C., of Wellington, arrived in Napier on Monday by~ motor-car from Taupo. ' Mr. Paul Murphy and Miss Mary Murphy, of Hastings, left yesterday morning en route for Sydney and Melbourne.

Mrs. Jacob Joseph, Miss Joseph, Mrs. Nathan, and Miss Rose, of Wellington, arrived in Napier on Tuesday by motor-car from Palmerston.

Yesterday morning, at St. Augustine's Church, Napier, Mr. E. W. Smyrk, of Napier, was married by the Rev. Canon Tuke to Miss Jessie Arnold,. second daughter of Mr. J. Arnold, of Napier. A wedding of local interest was celebrated at the Napier Cathedral yesterday afternoon, when Miss Edith Muriel swain, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. C. Swain, of Napier, was married to Mr. Arthur Henry Hibbard Unwin, second son of the late Mr. Norton G. Unwin,- of Melbourne. Tho Rev. Canon Mayne officiated.

Very many well-known authors - have gone to the front, and among the latest to join their number is Mr. A. E. W. Mason, ex-member of Parliament, as well as author of many famous novels, including "The Four Feathers," writes a London correspondent. "One wonders," he continues, "if Mason so much as dreamt, when he penned that romance about the three friends and the sweetheart of a moral coward who bestowed white_ feathers upon him (and thus goaded him into proving himself ft hero), that a comparatively few years later, a famous British Admiral would be urging patriotic British girls to go and do likewise with 'slackers' of their acquaintances, and that some of the les6 intelligent of Britain's fair ones would promptly act on the suggestion. They have, of course, and in some cases have thus unjustly stigmatised as cowards really plucky young fellows with invalid parents to keep, and others whom physical unfitness alone has kept from answering their country's call."

_ Two striking instances of determination on the part of men unemployed owing to the war to suffer in silence rather than publish their misfortunes are cited by Sister Esther, a. well-known worker amongst the poor, states the Auckland "Herald." Since the war began, she says, two perfectly respectable men have been sent to gaol for failing to pay fines inflicted upon them for not sending their children to school. In each case the father was genuinely unable to get work, but, rather than make his conditions know in Court, went to gaol.: Neither man had ever been imprisoned before. One of these caseß was particularly hard, because the child had been ill and the only doctor who 'ould certify to the fact had gone to the war. Had these facts been made known to the Magistrate concerned, Sister Esther is convinced that the two men in question would never have been imprisoned.